Attachment for sewing-machines.



. M. SALDIN.' ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES. I

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1908.

Patented Apr. 19, 1910.

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. M. SALDIN.

ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 190B. 955,439 Patented Apr. 19, 1.9110.

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WITNESSES lVl/ENTQR ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

MAX SALIDIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Max SALDIN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAttachments for Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to an attachment forregistering and properly holding buttons to place the eyes or holesthereof in exact alinementwith the needle preparatory to being sewed toan article.

The primary object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicientmeans for holding the button to be sewed in such a way that the same maybe positively moved adjacent to and in alinement with the sewing machineneedle and there held in position for the needle to sew the same to thearticle without handling the buttons at all, except to place the same inengagement with a part of the attachment, thereby overcoming theobjection to the usual method in which the button has to be placed inposition for sewing with great care to avoid breaking the needle, whichrequires considerable experience to accomplish by the ordinary methodwith any amount of speed.

A further object of the invention isto provide simple means which willadapt one button to be placed in position to be registered with theneedle while the machine is being operated to sew a button previouslyalined and held by the attachment, thus materially saving time inplacing the button in position and permitting an inexperienced hand tooperate the machine after a few minutes instruction.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawingswhich form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out inthe claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of one form ofattachment showing the same applied to a sewing machine, the latterbeing shown partly in dotted lines and partly in full lines. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view through the neck of a sewing machine, showing inplan the 1 very thin sheet metal, and has its inner end Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed June 27, 1908.

Patented Apr. 19, 1910.

Serial No. 440,714.

attachment with the button ready to be placed in sewing position. Fig. 3is a detail perspective view of a part of the attachmentwiththebuttonproperlypositionedtobe sewed on the article. Fig. 4 is anend elevation of the attachment and part of the sewing machine. Fig. 5is a fragmentary rear elevation; and Fig. 6 is a detail view showing howthe registering fingers may be adjusted to adapt the same for differentsizes of buttons.

While I have shown the invention as applied to a machine known as aSinger zigzag sewing machine, it will be understood that the inventionmay be applied to machines of various makes, and that the constructionthereof may be changed to adapt the same for use in connection withdifierent makes of sewing machines.

The neck 10 of the sewing machine may have the usual form ofneedle-operating and thread-supplying mechanism, and any suitable meanswhereby a reciprocatory and zigzag movement may be imparted to a needleto adapt it to pass from one hole or eye of a button to the other as isusual in machines of this character. As shown a needle 11 is suitablysupported in the head 12, and adjacent to the needle is arranged a rod13 which may be raised and lowered in any suitable way, and to said rodis held a foot-piece lt. This foot-piece 1a is provided with a collarpart 15 which may be adjustably or otherwise held to the rod 13 by meansof a screw 16. The foot-piece is adapted to rest upon the button to besewed on the article, as for example a sweater, or other article ofwearing apparel, and said foot-piece has an angularly arranged body orstem portion 17 and a presser foot 18. The foot 18 extends insubstantially a horizontal plane at an angle with respect to the part 17and is made in substantially a hooked form so as to provide a spacewithin the same for the eyes of the button as shown best in Fig. 3. Aplate 19 is suitably supported on the machine table 20 both of which maybe of the usual construction and to the rear of the foot-piece isarranged a button guide plate 21 which extends rearwardly and upwardlyfrom the foot-piece, and is provided with a bracket, as at 22, by whichthe said guide plate or member may be held to the machine table. Theguide plate or member 21 may be of normally arranged under the path ofmovement of the foot-piece l t, and is adapted to rest under the buttonwhen the latter is placed in position, but not so as to project farenough to interfere with the sewing ot the button on to the article. Aguide or member 22 is adj ustably held upon the machine table 20, andthis guide is adapted to position the article on which the buttons areto be sewed, as a sweater, the edge of the article being adapted to abutor rest against the upwardly-extending part or lip 23 of the guide whichis arranged at substantially right angles to the base part 2%. This basepart 2% is provided with slots 25, and passing through said slots arethe screws 26, or other fastening means, under the head of which arewashers 27 by which the said guide 22 may be adjusted relatively withrespect to the needle so that the buttons may be properly positioned thedesired distance from the edge of the article.

To aline the button and to hold the same for placing the button underthe toot-piece l t in position for the eyes or holes therein to beplaced properly under the sewing needle to adapt the same to pass fromone eye to the other successively as is usual 1 provide a swinging arm,member or device 28. This arm or member 28 may comprise two parts 29 and30 which may be rigidly and adj ustably held together, and said memberis pivoted as at 31 to the machine table at one edge thereof, and at theouter end or the member 28 is arranged a plurality of devices or fingersAs shown there are two fingers which are arranged in substantiallyparallel relation, and have their outer ends, as at 33, extendingdownward and their inner ends held in a slot 3 l-tormed in the outer endof the arm or member 28. The end of the arm 28, in which is the slot 34,is cut away, as at 36, to make one member as 37 yielding with respect tothe member 38, and passing through the members or parts 37 and 38,forming a bifurcated end, is ascrew 39, or other device, by which themembers 37 and 38 may be forced together to clamp and rigidly hold theinner bent ends of the fingers 32, the slot 3% being slightly recessedif desired on each side of the screw 39 to form a seat for the innerends of the fingers or devices The fingers as thus held may have theirouter ends 33 moved toward or from each other to adjust the same tobuttons in which the eyes or holes are different distances apart thusadapting the attachment for handling different sizes of buttons. A part30 ot the arm 28 is provided with an outwardly extending part or bracket4.0 in which is arranged an adjustable abutment or screw ll which isadapted to engage a stop 42 projecting outward from a collar 43 locatedon the presser-toot bar or rod 13, The screw se -ves to engage the stopand limit the inward movement of the arm 28 on its pivot and therebyplaces the ends 33 of the fingers 32 in alinement and directly under thesew ing needle 11.

The button is placed on the guide plate 21 so that the inner ends of thefingers will enter the eyes or holes in the buttons while in theposition shown in Figs. 1, 2 and L. The arm 28 is so pivoted at 31 thatit may have a vertical movementas well as a lateral movement, and whenforced inward as shown in Fig. 3 it will carry the button inward anddownward along the guide 21 under the foot 18 of the foot-piece 1a, thesaid foot-piece being manually or otherwise raised or lowered as isusual. This movement of the arm will be arrested by the screw 41engaging the stop 42 and will place the button properly to cause theneedle to enter the eyes, after which the presser-toot is forceddownward so as to engage the button and hold the same to the article,the edge of which rests against the part 23 of the guide 24:. Thefingers 32 may now be released from the button and restored to theposition shown in Fig. 1, and while the button previously placed underthe foot-piece is being sewed on to the article another button may beplaced in engagement with the fingers, thus permitting a second buttonto be placed in sewing position immediately that the previous one hasbeen sewed to the article.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a simple and efficientattachment is provided whereby buttons may be sewed to sweaters or otherarticles and the buttons placed in alinement with the needle without anyhandling or adjustment whatever except to place the button in engagementwith a part of the attachment; that said attachment is so made thatvarious sizes of buttons may be registered with the sewing mechanism;that said device or attachment is simple in construction and may bereadily placed in connection with various forms of sewing machines; thatwhile one button is being sewed on to the article another button may beplaced in position to be registered with the sewing mechanism as soon asthe one previously held has been sewed to the article; and that saidattachment permits very rapid adjustment of the buttons thus materiallysaving in the time required for registel-ing the buttons with the sewingmechanism, and also effecting a saving in the breakage of the needles.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. An attachment for sewing machines comprising amember constructed to engage a button and carry the same to the sewingposition, a presser foot for holding said button in the sewing position,an adjustable abutment carried by said member, and a stop carried bysaid presser foot arranged to engage said abutment.

2. An attachment for; sewing machines comprising a movable armconstructed to be attached to a sewing machine, a plurality of fingerscarried by said arm, and constructed to engage a button whereby saidbutton will move with said arm, means for adjust-ing said fingersrelatively to each other, and a presser foot constructed to retain saidbutton when said arm returns to its normal position.

3. The combination with a presser foot of a sewing machine, of apivotally held arm movable laterally with respect thereto, a bracketcarried by said arm, a screw adjustably held in the bracket, a stoplocated adjacent to the presser foot, said arm being slotted at one end,and two fingers having downwardly-extending ends adapted to engage theeyes of a button and to force the same under the presser foot.

4. The combination with a presser foot of a sewing machine, of a devicemovable laterally with respect thereto, a bracket carried by saiddevice, a screw adjustably held in the bracket, a stop located adjacentto the presser foot, said device being slotted at one end, and twofingers having downwardly-extending ends adapted to engage the eyes of abutton and to force the same under the presser foot.

5. The combination with a presser foot of a sewing machine, an armpivoted at one end and movable laterally with respect to said presserfoot, a bracket carried by the free end of said arm, a stop locatedadjacent to the presser foot for engagement with the bracket, and aplurality of relatively adj ustable fingers having downwardly-extendingends adapted to engage the eyes of a button and to force the same underthe presser foot.

6. The combination with a presser foot of a sewing machine, of apivotally held device, a screw carried by the device, a stop locatedadjacent to the presser foot for engagement with the screw, said devicebeing slotted at one end, and two fingers having downwardly-extendingends adapted to engage the eyes of a button and to force the same underthe presser foot.

7. The combination with a presser foot of a sewing machine, of apivotally held arm movable laterally with respect thereto, said armbeing slotted at one end, and two fingers held in said end and havingdownwardly-extending ends adapted to engage the eyes of a button and toforce the same under the presser foot, said fingers being relativelyadjustable.

This specification signed and witnessed this 24th day of June A. D.1908.

MAX SALDIN.

Witnesses M. TURNER, A. REDMOND.

